Episode 2: Bakugan are obsessed with battle and will do anything short of betraying their partner to get their fix.
Episode 3: A bakugan betrays its partner because it refuses a specific type of battle.
Way to be consistent show.
(Some time after Kirito and Eugeo got away from an Integrity Knight without killing him, after nearly defeating him without killing him, which they would have done without any interference)
Cardinal: Don’t be as so naive to think you can defeat an Integrity Knight without killing them.
Eugeo: But what if we have to fight Alice?!
Cardinal: Take these two +5 daggers of direct connection and you’ll be able to
defeat an Integrity Knight without killing them.
Gotta honestly say that I’m not really enjoying Battle Planet so far (between this show and the new Mega Man cartoon, I really feel as though Man of Action have been off their game lately… Is this really the same studio that made the original Ben 10?) and frankly, this isn’t helping…
You know this is an animation thing a lot of anime do to make the eyes of characters with glasses visible and make animating expression easy right?
Never seen it before. Show me some examples that last for more than a few frames.
It’s used with things like wired fences too
And these aren’t blink-and-you’ll-miss-it examples right?
There woud be no point in doing it if they were 😒
Well, I still think it looks tacky regardless. Besides, it’s possible to just layer these things above the eyes these days (and Battle Planet is quite visibly done with modern digital animation), it doesn’t make it any less expressive to do so… Especially not with a frame that thin and eye expression that large…
I had hesitations but I was going to give Battle Planet the benefit of the doubt but…
Let me just break down all of the issues I have with the first episode of Battle Planet (keep in mind that this is mostly my opinion, you’re free to disagree but you’re not going to change my mind easily, especially if you get on my case about it, also if you use the reboot excuse, you get blocked because you clearly didn’t read a thing I said and just want to blindly defend the show):
Bakugan is no longer a secret from the adults at the start, this was meant to avoid any realistic action that adults would have taken, such as military intervention and scientific dissection, area 51 stuff you know? There is a place for that in shows like these but near the start you’re supposed to keep things simpler… The trope of kids keeping this sort of thing a secret from parents exists for a reason.
“The Awesome ones”? Really? How many seconds did it take the writers to think up that team name? I understand if you don’t want to call them the Battle Brawlers but at least TRY to think of a decent name to replace it…
And then there’s the writing in general, it’s like these people never met a kid in their lives.
Honestly I could physically feel myself losing brain cells…
Also prank videos are among the lowest forms of entertainment.
I have to wonder how old they are too, the new art style makes it very hard to tell…
Also why is Drago just suddenly saying Dan is his partner and just randomly accepting his new life? Shouldn’t he know about what’s really going on? In the original show, his entire motivation was to stop Naga and he didn’t like Dan at all at first. Maybe there’s a plot reason for this but it just seems kind of weaker narratively and in terms of character.
Lia is an even larger brat than Runo btw, and that’s saying quit a bit.
Also the theme song is pure garbage. I’d rather listen to Nickleback…
Now for the smaller gripes: Why was Drago in watery goop? Would have made more sense for them to be surrounded with small pillars of flame that Dan would have had to work around to grab him to show how brave he is and the rest would also have proper elementally themed stuff surrounding them, like dirt for Ventus (ugh, I’ll get to this in a minute because this is an even smaller gripe), a pillar of light for Haos and shadows that Lighting could sniff for the ball in for Darkus.
Why is Ventus the earth element?! It’s literally Latin for wind! If they wanted to replace one of the elements for a golden one, why not sub-terra? Neither really fits the color (unless they were trying for a Jojo’s reference, in which case, SHAAAAAAMEEEE! That’s NOT how you make references!) but still…
The animation is full of gaudy flat colors and why are the bakugan all robots now? Don’t think anyone was asking for a Grimlock2015 bakugan but hey, at least there’s a yeti Winston bakugan. Least the rendered 3D looks decent.
Social media seems to be stuck in the 90s like most of the rest of this
show (in all the wrong ways) (stuff like YouTube, smartphones and drone camera notwithstanding of course), which is kind of ironic when the original
show seemed to make social media look more advanced than it wound up
looking in the end.
Lastly, why is the dog’s name Lightning? Not even the writers know apparently…
There’s still a chance for the show to redeem itself at this point but it’s leaving a pretty sour first impression…
Gotta honestly say that I’m not really enjoying Battle Planet so far (between this show and the new Mega Man cartoon, I really feel as though Man of Action have been off their game lately… Is this really the same studio that made the original Ben 10?) and frankly, this isn’t helping…
You know this is an animation thing a lot of anime do to make the eyes of characters with glasses visible and make animating expression easy right?
Never seen it before. Show me some examples that last for more than a few frames.
It’s used with things like wired fences too
And these aren’t blink-and-you’ll-miss-it examples right?
Gotta honestly say that I’m not really enjoying Battle Planet so far (between this show and the new Mega Man cartoon, I really feel as though Man of Action have been off their game lately… Is this really the same studio that made the original Ben 10?) and frankly, this isn’t helping…
You know this is an animation thing a lot of anime do to make the eyes of characters with glasses visible and make animating expression easy right?
Never seen it before. Show me some examples that last for more than a few frames.
Gotta honestly say that I’m not really enjoying Battle Planet so far (between this show and the new Mega Man cartoon, I really feel as though Man of Action have been off their game lately… Is this really the same studio that made the original Ben 10?) and frankly, this isn’t helping…
You know I just realized, WoW has Zandalari trolls. Since when did X, Y and Z start getting used for species and character names that aren’t barely/unpronounceable old god names and sci-fi names?
(I mean I know WoW has scifi elements in it but it’s still classic high fantasy regardless and the Zandalari trolls aren’t exactly deviating from that considering their strong ties to Caribbean islander-inspired mysticism)
I guess it’s due to the Caribbean islander cultural origins or something but still!
Did they really expect us to fall for that?!
It’s not what you think it is, get your head out of the gutter!
